Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Filmmaker David Lean is scouting locations in Tahiti for a feature film about the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty. His property master, Eddie Fowlie, discovers the whereabouts of an anchor which had belonged to Captain Cook, and h...
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"The lost and found David Lean film, at least in the sense of this being the rarest and least seen of David Lean's films. In this 1978 South Pacific Television documentary short 'told by David Lean' the epic film director recounts how, whilst scouting locations in Tahiti for a film of 'The Mutiny on the Bounty' with writer Robert Bolt and property master Eddie Fowlie, they discovered the lost anchor of Captain James Cook's ship 'HMS Adventure', abandoned to the seabed in 1773 ("I'm bloody sure it's Cook's" says shipwreck museum cu..."
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TV Documentary made by David Lean while he was preparing to shoot a remake of Mutiny on the Bounty. The remake was eventually made as The Bounty (1984), directed by Roger Donaldson.
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Filmmaker David Lean is scouting locations in Tahiti for a feature film about the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty. His property master, Eddie Fowlie, discovers the whereabouts of an anchor which had belonged to Captain Cook, and h...